Sabrin Beg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics. She is an applied microeconomist working on development, political economy, the economics of education, and agriculture, with field experiments and administrative data in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Ghana. Much of her recent work asks how public services—schools in particular—can be made to work better: putting technology in teachers’ hands rather than bypassing them, remedial instruction in secondary schools, school management, and second-chance programs for out-of-school girls. Her research has appeared in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Development Economics, and World Development, among other journals.
She is a Faculty Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Research Affiliate of the International Growth Centre, an Invited Researcher of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan and the Mahbub ul Haq Centre at LUMS, and a Trustee of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. In 2024–25 she was a Senior Economist at Amazon. She has held visiting positions at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and the Wharton School, and received the Lerner College Cleaver Fellow Award in 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College.